Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart

A boy in 1980s Glasgow certain he can save his mother, in a novel that refuses to agree.

Douglas Stuart’s Booker-winning first novel follows a boy in 1980s Glasgow who loves his alcoholic mother and keeps believing he can save her. Written from inside poverty rather than about it, it is tender without being consoling, and clear that love is not sufficient.

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Dua Lipa

Singer-songwriter and founder of Service95

I clearly have a thing for heart-breaking books and this is no exception. Yet there is so much love within the pages of this book, particularly between Shuggie and his mother Agnes

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